TY - JOUR T1 - Q&A with Carter Blakey on Healthy People 2030: Setting objectives to move US health forward Social determinants of health playing larger role in new initiative JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 9 LP - 10 VL - 50 IS - 8 AU - Mark Barna Y1 - 2020/10/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/50/8/9.abstract N2 - Carter Blakey is deputy director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The office manages the Healthy People initiative, which since 1980 has supported health improvements in the U.S. by setting objectives to meet over the next decade, tracking prevention efforts and measuring success. State and local health programs use the objectives as a benchmark to learn how their communities compare and guide their work. On Aug. 18, the office launched Healthy People 2030, which boasts new objectives and emphases. ER -